I would almost kill at this point to be able to fill a flat rate box with vinyl for $30.
I mailed today 21 lps to Germany (parcel weighed just under 13 pounds) and it was $62.50. And of course the flat rate box nowadays does not fit any vinyl.

Endless Morbidity wrote:

Those flat-rate international boxes start off at like over $30, I think.

off topic, but i had this LP sent to me by media mail on october 12th. it was coming from illinois and i am in indiana. i'm about 5 hours away from the guy's town. needless to say, i am still waiting for it. this guy is a reliable seller on ebay, he has great feedback. anyway, anybody experience anything like this before? should i assume my LP got lost or what?

Let me explain this the best I can.... MEDIA MAIL has a tendency to make longer routes even if the item is only a couple miles away. I think they do this because they just push all the MEDIA stuff on 1 truck to save money and if it's only going 1 route, your MEDIA package has to take their route and it's not a direct one. It could be a big circle.

I sent a package out from Pittsburgh and it was only going to downtown Pittsburgh, it took 2 weeks to arrive because it went on the truck that went to BOSTON, then back to Pittsburgh... It's their way of saving money cause the postage is so cheap. It's not about them inspecting it, that doesn't take long and it's usually done at your drop off place in the back._________________http://store.shadowkingdomrecords.com/

Yosuke,
I talked with the lady at my post office(she is very helpful) and she says there is a new size flat rat box for international coming soon that might fit vinyl. You should ask at your local post if they have more info.

You can get a FULL refund on a very small percentage of delayed packages. If you use EXPRESS MAIL to JAPAN for instance, they guarantee the date of delivery. If it doesn't arrive on that date or before you get the FULL refund. I know a couple other Asian countries do it too,

In Belgium they've deleted normal mail this week, only priority mail now.
1-3 LP's within Europe: €8,80
1-3 LP's outside Europe: €14,40
If you only have one record to mail out it's actually cheaper to send out the vinyl itself and the cover in seperate packages. Anyway, I'm done with overseas trading, these prices are just too high for me.

is postage in denmark really high? i just did a trade with a danish guy and i was looking at the package and it had three stamps on it. 200 kr 50 kr 20 kr. 270 DKK for postage? that's like $53 USD. that can't be right.